Drowning in the cloud: water, the digital and the queer potential of feminist science fiction
Smith, Smin and Stone, Katie and Delany, Avery and Myerson, Sasha and Murphy, Sinead and Kabo, Raphael and Dillon, Tom and Kawitzky, Felix and Rossi, Eleonora and Lee, Sing Yun and Hill, Rachel (2022) Drowning in the cloud: water, the digital and the queer potential of feminist science fiction. In: Technologies of feminist speculative fiction: gender, artificial life, and the politics of reproduction. Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC) . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197-221. ISBN 9783030961923
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Water is frequently associated with a naturalized, trans-exclusionary understanding of womanhood. In this chapter we challenge this association. Focusing on the cyborgs of feminist SF and the waters in which they swim, gestate, and struggle, we theorize water as a technology that plays a crucial role in the self-consciously unnatural politics of queer resistance. In order to navigate these turbulent waters we have deployed the methodology we call Collective Close Reading—a practice of nonhierarchical knowledge production founded on a complex web of interdependence. In this way we seek to model the watery, cyborg collectivity depicted in the strange worlds of feminist sf. We swim together, beyond, against, and into gender.
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